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author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2015-02-18 00:58:35 +0100 |
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committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2015-02-18 00:58:35 +0100 |
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Revert "rename open_issues.mdwn to service_solahart_jakarta_selatan__082122541663.mdwn"
This reverts commit 95878586ec7611791f4001a4ee17abf943fae3c1.
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diff --git a/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn b/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..182fb6f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/linux_vmsig.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="Linux: vmsig"]] + +[[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]] + + * *cooperating with the VM when memory pressure increases* + + * *notify user applications of virtual memory events via real-time signals* + +<http://www.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/bookmarking-collector/>, and discussion at +<http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2391> and +<http://marc.info/?t=113269321800003&r=1&w=2>. + +Found this via <http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4094#comment-62100>, which +was linked from [LWN](http://lwn.net/Articles/409416/). + +From a quick glance, this sounds to [[me|tschwinge]] quite a bit like +mechanisms also found in (originating in?) Mach's +[[microkernel/mach/external_pager_mechanism]]. May be worth having a look at +it. + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2013-03-06 + + <braunr> tschwinge: from a quick look, this isn't similar to the external + pager mechanism + <braunr> it's an additional tool to help userspace application manage + internal caches + <braunr> it's similar to what is done to reclaim memory from the slab + allocator for example + <braunr> and it would indeed be a very good thing to have so that e.g. the + hurd can build a distributed but completely dynamic dentry-like cache + <braunr> i'm actually glad to see someone else thought of using real time + signals for this + <braunr> i didn't do any research on that subject yet |